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Re: New Gods [ISRP]

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Timepockie is not online. Timepockie
Joined: 14 Oct 2013
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15 Jun 2016 07:33 AM
I'm writing this on a whim and with no idea at all as to whether or not anyone would actually sign up for this. That said, here it goes.

Table of Contents

1) History
2) Terminology
3) Rules
4) CS
5) Admins & Credits

1) History (1

Seventy Two thousand years ago, the First Gods used the last of their primordial energies to create the universe. However, the attempt was sabotaged when the Dark God Neurax attacked his bretheren. His attempt was ultimately unsuccessful, but he managed to preform irreparable damage in his attempts to convert the world back into it's pre-creation state of nonexistence and void.

The side effects caused by Neurax were plentiful, and, as his brothers failed to kill him, he continued to cause damage. Among the things which he has done are giving some of the primordial energies to mortals (thus allowing magic to exist), warping the way in which time works allowing some gifted individuals to see the future and birthing prophets and manipulating and bastardizing the minds of some of the first mortals to garner them to his cause. But by far his most significant contribution was one done in that very instant of creation, altering the very nature of what gods are, for every eighteen thousand years all the gods shall die and be replaced.

This history has been forgotten to time by all but the gods, but the cycle has never broken - After the First Gods (whose names are so old they have faded even from myth) perished, the Second Gods arose, and then the Third Gods. Each generation came to be known simply as "The Gods" by the masses within centuries of their rise, but among themselves and the greatest of all scholars some of the truth is known and they go by the number provided.

An odd occurrence happens when the Gods die. People panic at first, but within a few years some semblance of order is restored. The entire geopolitical landscape of the world is greatly altered, warfare becomes increasingly common and the egos of mortals rise. Why, after all, should gods be considered superior to mortals when most mortals are older than all of the gods still alive, and when gods can bleed and die - even of old age - just as mortals can? In fact, within the first few decades, but slowing exponentially down by about the second century each time, many mortals delve into the study of magic and slay some of the new generation of gods themselves, often seeking to take their place.

The Fourth Gods, before their death, have sought out and warned those who would rise to be their successors (for Gods are always chosen from amongst mortals) of the hardships to come, as the Third Gods did before them. You are one of the Fifth Gods. You are a New God.

2) Terminology (2

Some terminology shall be used in this RP which has specific meanings in the context of this RP that it does not otherwise have. Likewise, I shall be coining some new terms for this RP, or at least unofficially plagiarizing terms from other RPs and fantasy worlds without my own knowledge of doing so.

First Gods: The First Gods, as is rather obvious by their name, are the first gods, and they were the ones who created the universe and the world, and most of the races. It was hypothesized sixty thousand and some years ago by the immortal scholar Minlias that there may have theoretically been beings before the First Gods who destroyed a previous universe and died for the First Gods to take their place and start a universe anew, but this is completely unproven and Minlias lived a thousand years in exile for his thoughts.

Mortal: A member of many various races who are not dead, not immortal and not a god.

God: A God is an individual who has attained the highest levels of power, being nearly omnipotent, nearly omnipresent and, due to the age which they manage to live up to, nearly omniscient (after a while). They are also ordinarily disembodied, but may create a vessel for themselves if they so desire to communicate with mortals and immortals.

Immortal: Formerly a mortal, they are essentially nothing special. They are often powerful wizards, undead and so forth who use magics to preserve their own lives well beyond what most mortals live to. There are two curious things about immortals - the first is that they can outlive Gods with ease if they decide to do so and the second is that, as they grow older, they gradually grow distanced from the world and become mere spectators to events rather than active participants (generally). There are a scant handful of immortals who lived alongside the First Gods (back before anyone knew that Gods could die), and as you progress through the timeline of history you'll notice that the number of immortals from that era steadily grows. This is because immortals, as they grow older, are often killed by mortals, gods, rival immortals or simply lose the will to live anymore.

Pantheon: A collection of gods, often headed by an individual god who is the head of the pantheon with the others as advisors. They often share a palace or city within the Godrealm, or if they don't, they are at least located within proximity of one another. Often it is the case amongst mortals that they decide upon gods to worship not willy-nilly but by sticking with an individual pantheon, maybe two, per political unit.

Godrealm: Somewhere else accessible only to Gods and those they permit to enter. Gods often use the Godrealm to build private cities and palaces for themselves and for a convenient place to convene among themselves. None truly know what the Godrealm is, but many immortals, especially Prince Neher, the Vampire Lord Baros and a being known only as The Librarian or the Keeper of Knowledge, subscribe to the belief that it was a prototype for the universe due to the strange way that it is halfway between existence and nonexistence.

High Council: A political construct created to act as a sort of God-UN, where the heads of all the Pantheons, any interested immortals and, occasionally, politically important mortals, debate politics, theology and ethics in an attempt to avert warfare between deities. Immortal historians say that every generation of Gods has their own High Council, but that all (other than the First Gods) took about a millennia on average to stop their warmongering and go for peace and passive observation of the world. Powerful mortals, such as notable heroes and extraordinarily influential kings and emperors, may be called to be "guest members" of the High Council when it convenes, but due to their short lifespan and the ever-changing political landscape of mortals, they are never permanent members.

3) Rules (3

1) No Godmodding. I know it's ironic, but just because you're a god doesn't mean you can do everything. You can do most things, sure, but you can't, for instance, instantly annihilate another god.
2) If you want to timeskip, just tell me and I'm happy to oblige. The first few pages (about up until things begin to immediately cool down from the upheaval caused by all the gods dying and new gods emerging) should not be timeskipped, but after that, due to immortality, I'm comfortable skipping several centuries at a time.
3) Common sense applies. If there are rules I forgot but that make sense to be here obey them, and if I decide out of the blue that something's against the rules go with it.
4) This isn't a "linked ISRP" or whatever; each person gets their own universe to play with.
5) Remove things in parentheses in the CS.

4) CS (4

Name:
Age: (as of becoming a God)
Race: (prior to being a God)
Appearance: (prior to being a god)
History: (up to becoming a god)
Other:

5) Admins & Credits (5

Timpookie/Eikoopmit/Timepockie/Tesero - Writing all of this in just over an hour.
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birmie123 is online. birmie123
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15 Jun 2016 09:21 AM
mmmm

i was like sure ill join

and then i was like wait i have to make a cs...

maybe later when im not tired


this is a siggy. i am unoriginal so it is a siggy.^^
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Timepockie is not online. Timepockie
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15 Jun 2016 09:22 AM
You don't actually have to put much effort into the CS if you have an interesting enough idea.
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birmie123 is online. birmie123
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15 Jun 2016 09:24 AM
yeah but i always feel more accomplished and willing to stick with the rp/isrp if i put more effort into it


this is a siggy. i am unoriginal so it is a siggy.^^
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TheMackOfAllTrades is online. TheMackOfAllTrades
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15 Jun 2016 10:57 AM
This seems a lot like fantasy, which I have found out I am awful at attempting. Is there anyway this could fit into another genre?


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WarbossBoneStompa is not online. WarbossBoneStompa
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15 Jun 2016 03:01 PM
(I haven't done an RP in a long time, so this is my attempt)

Name: Aldreg Stepton
Age: 68
Race: Human
Appearance:
History:

Aldreg was born an only child from his parents, Hermon and Elisa. Despite given loving care from his parents, he never was with them for long as they always had to leave for their work-something that Aldreg never found out until recently. Alone, he studied books his father kept in his room. From vague fables about the first gods, to recent stories about the heroics of the third and fourth. Infatuated with the knowledge, he wished to learn more, with his studying slowly taking over his social activities. Turning into a young man, he worked as a scholar himself and secretly worshiped the mysterious Librarian, all the while reading more. The thought of immortality and magic, in fact, delighted him.

His mother Elisa fell to an unknown illness, which had caused his father to slowly go insane. Hermon slowly began shouting and screaming, about a Dark God and their failed worship. He would often go into fits of blind rage, hurting those around him, whether they were doing anything or not. Although Aldreg was never hurt, only used as a punching bag of insults, he could see the apparent affects of his father's insanity, leading him to getting the priests to "purify" him.

His father dead, and some years passed, Aldreg had already inherited the small home he had lived in for so many years, and everything that his family had left in there. One day, as he studied magic and it's effects positive and negative, he had noticed a small locked door in his father's study. Using a key he had found from scrounging around in the house, he found it to actually be a safe, holding a small map and a book. The map seemed to lead somewhere out of the city, and far from civilization, but the book held rituals and sacrifices, all for an unnamed "Dark God", but most of all, magic.
Leaving the city, he set out to study magic as an apprentice.

Finally, a veteran of magic, he set out to do the one thing to attain ultimate knowledge and power. Killing a god.

Other: Aldreg can't hold his own very well in a physical confrontation.

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WarbossBoneStompa is not online. WarbossBoneStompa
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15 Jun 2016 03:02 PM
I forgot appearance.
I'll do this later.
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Timepockie is not online. Timepockie
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16 Jun 2016 08:22 AM
(All the stuff that happened in the History with how things were created happened literally over seventy thousand years ago; it's long since been lost to time. No mortals know of it, and I mean absolutely no mortals. It is over ten times as much history as exists in our world and literally nobody today can talk about the religion of the Indus River Civilization or the Sumerians at all.)
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WarbossBoneStompa is not online. WarbossBoneStompa
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16 Jun 2016 01:25 PM
Oh okay. I'll redo my history then, thanks.
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InsidiousRogue is not online. InsidiousRogue
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16 Jun 2016 01:39 PM
this is cool, good job. Might join.
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Timepockie is not online. Timepockie
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17 Jun 2016 09:00 AM
Bump. Warboss, who are you an alt of?
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WarbossBoneStompa is not online. WarbossBoneStompa
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17 Jun 2016 09:17 AM
Alt of Tortemarra.
My account got hacked a long time ago when trolling.
My other alt, SenseiOnion, also got banned.
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Timepockie is not online. Timepockie
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20 Jun 2016 09:15 AM
Bump
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InsidiousRogue is not online. InsidiousRogue
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20 Jun 2016 10:30 AM
Name: Rankulas
Age: 183
Race: Altoraki
Appearance: Rankulas stands at just under two meters, a typical height for an Altoraki. Also typical of his race is the thick leathery skin and layers of fat that help immensely in the often frigid conditions of the tundra. Two watery blue eyes stare out at the world from a rather lumpish face that was the result of a few too many beatings as a child. As the leader of his people, Rankulas wears the legendary armor of the first Warlord which is a magically enchanted suit of full plate armor made of steel and painted white.
History:
The Altoraki are a proud and rigidly caste bound people hailing from the northern tundra. Well known for their prowess as warriors they eventually united under a single banner thanks to one tribal chieftain being a helluva lot stronger than the others. Curiously enough thanks to their pride they refused to adopt a pantheon of Gods and went on their merry way relying on their caste of scholars to serve them instead.

Periodically as the tundra became unable to support their population, the Altoraki would descend south in a vast crusade only to be repulsed because in everyone else's opinion they were a bunch of godless savages. It was during one of these campaigns that Rankulas rose to power with a novel solution. If the Altoraki did not have a god, they would make one themselves. Not surprisingly, the only candidate would have to be Rankulas because he alone could command the vast resources needed to usurp a gods power.

Unfortunately in their pride, the Altoraki vastly underestimated the power needed to steal the power of a god, and in the ensuing ritual and battle, the Altoraki empire was obliterated leaving only a few scattered tribes. Rankulas alone was left standing in the smoldering remains of the capital, the patron god of a people who no longer existed.

Other:
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WarbossBoneStompa is not online. WarbossBoneStompa
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20 Jun 2016 11:34 PM
I just have a question, how well is magic known in this universe?

Are there books?
Schools to learn any of it?
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k3rl343 is not online. k3rl343
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20 Jun 2016 11:58 PM
interesting.

𝒇𝓪𝓴𝒆 𝓪 𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓵𝒆
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Timepockie is not online. Timepockie
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21 Jun 2016 12:31 AM
Warboss, it's generic D&D-esque high fantasy.

Insidious, I've read your CS and I'm not ignoring you, but I'm considering whether to accept or decline you now.
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Timepockie is not online. Timepockie
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14 Jul 2017 10:39 PM
I didn't ever actually make anyone's thread on this RP, but I'd definitely like to repost this at some point in the future somewhere else.
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